Henry Zeffman
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1,893 appearances
15 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 13 Sep
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to just do stuff that otherwise prime ministers would have to do.
Of course, David Miliband wasn't prime minister, but he was foreign secretary for three years and then has spent the last decade or more perhaps running a big NGO, so has various of those relationships.
Yeah, that's right.
And some of those advisers, Andy Haldane, former chief economist of the Bank of England, Lord O'Neill, Jim O'Neill, who was actually a treasury minister under George Osborne for a period of time, although I don't think he was ever a conservative.
But those are distinguished figures who are designed, I think, to reassure the bond markets who Andy Burnham famously said the UK needed to stop being in hock to.
I mean, on the transition point, I think what we're going to have a test of here is whether the issue with Keir Starmer and his preparations was time or time.
Himself, essentially.
The lack of an ism.
Because Keir Starmer was leader of the Labour Party for... From 2020.
Right, exactly.
Four years, more than four years before he became Prime Minister.
So he had plenty of time to prepare for government.
And there is a widespread admission now across the Labour Party that they weren't prepared.
But...
perhaps the issue was the lack of a governing ideology.
With Andy Burnham, perhaps it may well be, okay, he only has a few weeks, but he has Manchesterism combined with his own ministerial experience, which of course Keir Starmer didn't have.
And perhaps that clearer sense of purpose
will mean that the three weeks is plenty.
I think that is the sort of essay question that we're going to see answered over the coming weeks, months and years.
Brilliant film.
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